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fpoken before) is fomeiimes/ reforted to in this 

 cafe. 1 have of late, for the firfl time in my 

 life, heard ot a folitary inflance of fuccefs in 

 this torturing operation, without, however, 

 having had ocular proof. I think all men of 

 feeling fhould fet their faces againil it, fmce it 

 js well known how often it has been recom^ 

 mended and performed, merely to promote 

 bufmefs. Snape, Gibfon, Burdon, Ofmer, 

 Wood, and all our ablell pra6iical men, were 

 entirely againft it. Wood, Burdon, and others, , 

 aflert, that there is no hurt in the cafk of the 

 foot, which may not be come at without the 

 aid of this defperate meafure. St. Bel direfted 

 to draw the fole on a very flight occafion, 

 which I formerly remarked in a certain fmall 

 tra6l ; but in a founder, where it would be 

 dangerous to unfole, that author advifes to 

 make an opening by cutting away aboiit two 

 finger's breadth at the top and front of the 

 hoof, beneath the coronet, which was alfo 

 Snape's and Gibfon's praclice. I believe I 

 omitted to mention this fmall operation before, 

 jt may perhaps anfwer in feveral cafes. 



Strains in the Shoulders are much lefs 

 frequent than in the nether limbs ; as to the 

 fymptoms, there is generally a deceptio vifus, 

 all lame horfes appearing afFe61ed in the 

 fhoulders, however found thofe parts may be, 

 which is the occafion of the perpetual blunder 

 pf grooms and farriers, whofe lole rule of 



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